Ticket-printing machine



Jan. 2 1926. 1,569,085

w. H. HEYNE, JR

TICKET PRINT'INC- momma Filed Dec. 6, 1923.. 3 She ts-Sheet 1 l I I? H J4 ATTORNEY? Jan. 12 ,1926. 1,569,085

W. H. HEYNE, JR

TICKET PRINTING mcnz'us ed Dec. 6, 1923 3 Sheets- Sheet 2 II US BS 89 BI DIG ATTORNEY,

Jan. 12 1926 W. H. HEYNE, JR TicKET PRINTING MACHINE Filed Dec. 6. 1923 3 sheds-sheet :5

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JINVE/VTOR Arromvsr,

Patented Jan. 12, i926.

WILLIAM H. HEYNE, JR., OF PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY.

TICKET-PRIN TIN G MACHINE.

Application filed December 6, 1923. Serial No. 678,881.

10 form a part thereof.

My invention relates to ticket printing machines, and more particularly to a machine adapted for use in printing tickets to be attached by clothing maiu'itt'acturers to different garments or parts of garments in a suit of clothes.

in the manufacture of clothing, it is a common practice to lay a considerable number ot strips of cloth upon a cutting table. superimposed one upon the other in a number of layers, varying with different manufacturers. The pieces of cloth thus laid may all be of the same. style, quality, and weight or" goods, or the diiierentlayers may vary in these respects. Even when the different layers or" cloth are of the same color,

weight and style, it is desirable 'to have the garments of each suit. made from cloth from the same piece otgoods, since there may be slight variations, inf the finish -'or color of d-iiterentpieces, which would be apparent. it

one garn'icnt or part of a garment be made from one, and another arment oroarto'l' a s, 1

iti n, l'

iensu l. thereon COl'l"\ e te o e ing "mark 'lel n1 amber, Such ticketsalso have size wliaft i s known; as a lot made from another, piece 'oi" l 11 ei rli I includii the nnpre mg is associatedi'with a shade or,

fication mark by which the number of suits produced from a given quantity of cloth may be checked.

A machine embodying my invention is so constructed that notwithstanding the neces sary spacing of the various mechanisms for impressing those identifying marks upon the tickets, because of the size of these distinct mechanisms as compared with that of the tickets to be printed, it may be used to print these arbitrary identification markings upon succeeding tickets in close relation, with great rapidity and in the same spaced relation upon each ticket.

The printing mechanism of a machine embodying my invention embodies therein a platen or impression cylinder having associated therewith a rotatable member provided with a sequence of independent printing elements at spaced intervals about a common axis. -One of these elements is adapted to impress upon the tickets, a model or style marking consisting of numbers, letters or emblems, or a combination of these, in conjunction with what may be termed a suit number. Another of these elements is adapted to print digits, letters or emblems, or a combination otsuch, indicating the lot, or a certain lot of work. The third oi said elements is adapted to impress nunir hers ii'idicating the size, of different garments en'teringinto thes iit, Each of these elements is in thenature of a numbering head, which ta wheels thereon normally held against ni v' inent,.i butjgeapablc oi; independent} ad.- time o ent "groups changed at will; nujt'acturing condie lenient whichis used for ..;J L un1be1s upon thelickeis, 1nfe ln a ninnbering head, one portion of which is capableof being progressively or intermittently actuated, and another pori which, (that portion I used: tor print- 1 ing them ,l I le indicia) heinginanu- In conjunction thfthe printing couple,

me her ca r tary et'e has plurality ofindependently ro'-.

trions,marki'ngs to thein odel or style markii'ig and- 'sion platenand the ro- I tickets will be automatically actuated by means of a n'iet'rhanism which is operative only upon the digit or other character wheels used for impressing; the suit munbers. This mechanism while actuated with each rotation of the rotary member carrying the 'arir ous printing elements, is of itself capable of being so set that the same number will be nrinted au indefinite nun'iber of times without change, or a definite number of times with a change after the completion of this number of in'ipressions. V

In a machine embodying my invention, 1 provide a strip feeding mechanism operative in syntithronism with the rotary movement of the platen cylinder, the movement of "which cylinder, however, will be prevented at all times excepting when each printing element is in the prii'iting relation to said cylinder, during which time a spacing mechanism is operative upon the impression cylinde so as to impart timely actuation to t 119 cylimler at different points during each ro tation of the rotary member carrying the printing elements to permit the making of the impression and secure the desired spaclxetween impressions. The strip of previously printed tickets "11 blank spaces thereon is mounted in reel form with relation to the printing couple, a sin'iple and convenient guiding mechanism provided which will have the two fold effect of directing this strip between the elements of the printing couple and maintaining it in proper relation to the impression cylinder at all times while the strip is passin through the machine.

he impression cylinder is so constructed that the strip at all times during its movement prevented from having any movement l pendently of said impression cylermitting the intern'iittent actuf ci, ler as each impression is ip ,rt the desired positive rip to secure the desired. understood that unequal ecured by in'iparting ari- 0 said cylinder during such l..i1lS]1'l employed is of a readily adapt it for use shop, where labor 1g of ordinary print {31 mg mechanisms therefor, *ily not found. The invention consists prin'iarily in a 7 machine ei'nl'iodyingtherein uple, one of the members of provided with a plurality of spaced s, each of said elements iii-- dir therein a sequence of independently will stable character wheels, means whereby 3 of the character wheels upon one of elements be automatically and pro- .vessively. actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, and means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members; and in such other novel features of construction and combination of parts as are hereinafter set forth and described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

Referring to the drawings,

Fig. 1 is afront view of a ticket printing machine embodying my invention, with portions thereof broken away;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of said machine;

F 3 is a plan view with the printing element carrying member removed from the machine and the back frame shown partly in section;

Fig. at is a back view of the machine adjacent the printing elements with the back frame broken away; and

F 5 is a perspective view of a portion of the impression cylinder, and of the mechauisn'i for inllfllltlng intermittent movement thereto.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In the embodiment of my invention shown in the drawings, the base of the machine 10 is provided with extensions 11 having suitable feet 12 thereon. This base is provided with a back frame. 13 having a laterally extending projection 1a supporting a spindle or arbor 15 for a roll of previously notched and weakened tickets in strip form. This strip is indicated at 16. The end of the spindle is screw-threaded, and suitable side plates 17 are mounted upon said spindle and are secured in relation to the roll by means of a butterfly nut 18, or other securing means.

The printing couple consists of a printing element carrying member 19 having a plurality of independent, spaced printing elements E20, 21 and respectively, secured thereto at ditl'erent points of the periphery of this member, and between the opposite side plates thereof; and a rotatable impression cylinder 23 mounted in the base 10 at a point where its surface is in a position to be engaged by the printing elements upon the inember 19. The impression cylinder 25 may be made of any desired material, and I have found that no blanket or other makeready is required for this cylinder. highly satisfactory results being secured with the use of the metal cylinder having an integral in'ipression surface.

The side plates of the member 19 are mounted to rotate idly upon a spindle 24 fixedly secured with relation to the back frame 13.

The member 19 and the printing elements c cried thereby are adapted to be rotated in any drsired n'ianner as by means of the hand Iii cranJ' the mpression cylinder 23 being positively rotated luring each printing and spacing interval but held against movement between impressions by co-operating members carried respectively by the member 19 and the cylinder 23, and intermediate connecting means, which limit the teedingmovement 0;. the strips to a distance required to secure the desired impressions and spacing between the impressions upon each ticket and upon succeeding tickets entirely independently oi the peripheral traverse of the printing elements during each cycle of operations of the machine.

Ink is applied to the various printing clements by u'ieans of an inking roller 26 consisting of felt, or some other absorbent material which may be saturated with the ink. This roller isremovably mounted in a frame QT pivoted atf28 tothe extension 1%, a set screw 29 being provided by means of which the frame 217 may be locked in any adjusted position to secure the desired pressure relation between theroller 26 and said printing elements; a A

Adjacent the impression cylinder n3 an oscillatory hollow guide member 30 through which the strip 16 is adapted to pass, said member having a curved end 31 extending close to the printing position so as to force and hold the strip 16 firmly against the inipression cylinder at this point. The guide ill) is acted upon by a spring 32 normally forcing the end 31 against the impression roller or cylinder. The end 31 is bevelled'ofi as shown to afford the proper clearance for the printing elements as they approach the impression cylinder. k

Beyond the printing point is a stripper 32 bearing upon the cylinder 23 and adapted to direct the striplti below a guide roller having enlarged shoulders-34rand 35 adapted to" engage the opposite ends of the strip 16 whilel ving a reduced portion intermedithese shoulders w na l 0 ed ed a ot' th strip when sta slung high [will nsu ap q hnli stri'iictigingtlie i 7, coiiipl et ef oscillat each rotation icajise this'swing frame to actuate the auto majt ically actuated [digit Vwl ccls' upon the t-1.015 frame however being manual. This general construction is common in what is known as daters. wherein it is desired to change the position of these wheels only at fixed intervals. There are no automatic features in these printing elements 21 and 22, although it desireda drop cipher construction may be used, this construction also being old in numbering and (later heads.

The element 20 however, is provided with a sequence of such digit wheels. two of which, those shown to the right of Fig. 2, being adapted to be automatically actuated by means of swing frame 38 commonly used in automatic numbering heads for progressively actuating the digit wheels of such heads. The remaining wheels 01' the element are adjustable only manually. This con struction is employed because of the fact that the garment nun'ibers change, without change in the shade or model numbers. and it desirable to provide for the automatic variation of the garment numbers. In fact the construction as to the automatically actuated character wheels is the same as in ordinary nun'ibering heads, my invention relating not to the detailed construction of this printing element, but to the manner of actuating the same in synchronism with the functioning of the printing element carrying inember. In fact if desired this element 20 may have incorporated therein those mechanisms by which the same number may be repeatedly rinted for an indefinite length of time. or may be printed only once or a greater number of times before the automatic actuation of the wheels carrying the numbers or char-. acters indicating the garments. The mechanism for securing this repeat or intermittent action is also old and well known in the numbering head art. a I v The swing frame 218 provided with a pivot 39 projecting through a segu'ienlal slot 4-0 in the side plate ot themcmber if) adia-- cent-the hack 4 carri eat 4 ed by an ecie'e io r i of the member 15,) so asfto j rotation of the member un err ive c hne-ction V w it v fund" the said 'ligit wheels. is so set f as H et-wecn ,1 Succeeding T printing element 20. n to actuating the automatically hee lf o i tr'an'ie and entering a'sochet ntric strap r Xed' in rc-Q lily this coni drcceiites". one (l1 rect and return, 'wiith,

i een' thisfs'w ngt I I tive effect of the swing 'resli ts aft ve e'terred to ....The" nplete the oscilframe ,4 (hi r Th r the '{pri nting element invention relates,

40 each ticket, or upon succeeding tickets.

is entirely concealed by the printing element carrying member 19, and the construction and arrangement is such that under no circumstances can this mechanism get out 6 of order while the machine is in operation,

nor can its operative efi'cct be modified in any way through a loss of adjustment in parts.

In a machine of the character to which my in which the various identifying numbers and characters must be printed in closely spaced relation upon a strip having notches along the edge in the manner described, it is apparent that this strip must be fed with great accuracy in order to prevent the accumulation or error in the printing of a large number 01 tickets upon the strip, and that where the spacebetween the impressions from a plurality of printing elements is "ery much less than the distance between the elements themselves, it is apparent that the means for feeding the strip must be so constructed that there can be only an intermittent movement of the strip, timed with relation to the printing interval and limited to a quantity of feeding movement required by the making of an impression and the spacing between succeeding impressions upon each ticket and the distance required to similarly place corresponding indicia upon succeeding tickets.

In the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated a mechanism which I have found highly satisfactory in permitting operation of the machine at fairly high speeds, and

an idler pinion 47, which pinion is adapted to be engaged by segmental rack sections 48, 49 and 59 carried by and rotatable with the side plate of the member 19 adjacent the back frame 13 of the machine. These segmental racks 48, 49 and are fixed in their relation to the printing elements 20, 21. and and so positioned that they will emnesh the pinion 46 substantially simultaneously ,with the initial engagement of the printing surfaces of the respective elements with the strip, thus causing the rotation of the im pression cylinder 23 at the same peripheral speed as that of the nrinting element during the impression interval and following this interval to ancxtent to properly position the strip preparatory to the making of an impression by the succeeding printing element.

It will be noted that after the making of 05 in'ipressions upon one ticket by all of the printing elements, the quality of feed of the strip, in the form of the invention shown, will be greater than is required between succeeding impressions upon the same ticket. The feeding mechanism described permits variation in the length of feed after the making of each impression by the use of segmental rack sections 48, 59 and 50 ot' ditl'erent degrees in length. While, as shown in the drawings, this variance in feeding movement is confined t0 the movement of the strip between the impressions made by the elements and 20, as by making the rack 50 longer than the racks 48 and 49, it is apparent that it required the construction may be extended to the spacing between the other printing elements.

To ensure the enmeshment of each of the segmental rack sections 48, 49 and 50 With the teeth of the pinion 47, and incidentally avoid any possible overrunning of the impression cylinder and a resultant excess feed of the strip, I so construct the pinion 47 and the member upon which the racks 48, 49 and 50 are formed, that all movement of the pinion 47 is prevented except during that interval when said racks are in engaging relation with said pinion. This construction is in the nature of a Geneva stop, and has the same operative effect, although I secure this result by a particular construction of the pinion 47. This pinion has a sequence of spaced long teeth 51 and interposed short teeth 52, and the teeth of the pinion 46 are wide enough to mesh with both the long and short teeth of the pinion 47. Both sets of teeth 51 and 52 are adapted to mesh with each of the racks 48, 49 and 50. The number of long teeth 51, however, will be greater as compared with the number of short teeth, in the portion of the pinion which engages the rack 50 to assure the proper spacing of the remaining long teeth. The short teeth 52 afi'ord clearance at one side of these teeth for arcuate members 58, 54 and 55 of substantially the same radius as the racks 48, 49 and 50, said arcuate members being of a width to escape the teeth 52 and the ends of succeeding members being spaced apart a distance substantially equalling the length of the racks 48, 49 and 50 respectively. The long teeth upon the pinion 47 are adapted to engage said members 58, 54 and 55 respectively so that the movement of any rack 48, 49 or 50 out of mesh with the pinion 47, two long teeth 51 of the pinion 47 will, by engagement with said members immediately arrest all movement of the impression cylinder 23.

While the teeth of the respective racks 48, 49 and 50 project into the gap between succeeding arcuate members 53, 54 and 55, they are formed upon a plate 56 positioned rearwardly of said members as shown more particularly in Fig. 4, and project ra- -dially from theperiphery of this plate so the impression cylinder 23, and since this movement must continue after the making of each impression to secure the proper spacing of the characters of the pinion, I

provide said cylinder, adjacent the opposite edges thereof, with a sequence of rectilineally opposite inwardly presented teeth 57 adapted to enter the triangular notches inthe opposite edges of the strip 16, the opposite teeth of each sequence being spaced.

about the perimeter of said cylinder a distance equalling the distance between the notches in the said strip. In this manner a positive uniform feed of the strip is secured and all likelihood of the development or accumulation of error is prevented.

If desired, the feet 12 may be secured to the lugs 11 by means of screws as 58, which screws may also be utilized to secure the machine as a whole upon a suitable base board or table.

The operation of the herein described machine is substantially as follows The end of the strip 16 is drawn from the roll and inserted through the channel in the guide 30 and below the projecting end 31 thereof, the guide being oscillated against the tension of the spring 32 so as to permit the end of the strip to pass freely between said end 31 and the surface of the impression cylinder 23.

Before threading the strip in the manner described, it is essential to determine that the position of the printing element for impressing the upper line of characters upon the ticket, is in such relation to the impression cylinder as to make the impression upon the desired part of each ticket.

it is apparent that as the strip is threaded in the machine. the forward notched end thereof will engage opposite teeth 57 and thus ensure accuracy in the positioning of the foremost edge of the first ticket with relation to the printing couple.

Each of the printing elements 20, 21 and 22 upon the rotary member 1 should have the various printing wheels thereon set so as-to secure the desired impression, prior to the threading of the strip through the guide 31). This setting of the printing wheels is done by hand; lVheii setting the element 20, the mechanism for controlling the operative effect of the swing arm 38 is also set according to whether it is desired to have the printing wheels 39 actuated to change the characterswith each rotation of the member 19, or after a given number of rotations, or to have the chara t rs 9. 1 said'wheels epe ted.

indefinitely. Thiscapability of adjustment permits the adaptation of the machine to different shop systems.

When all the printing elements have been pro iorly s9t.;the member 19 is turned by means of the hand crank 25. lVit-h the initial rotary movement of the member 19,

the engagement of the arcuate member with two of the long teeth 5.1, will prevent any movement of the impression cylinder 23. As the printing surface of the element 20, however. comes into engaging relatioi'i with the ticket, the teeth of the segmental rack 48 will mesh with the teeth 51 and 532 of the pinion '47, and thus through the pinions 4?46 and gear 45 impart positive rotary movement to the platen at the same peripheral speed as that of the printing element 20. The employment of two idler pinions 46 and 47 will ensure the proper direction of rotation of the impression cylinder. \Vhile the rack 48 is in mesh with the teeth of the pinion 47, the said pinion 47 will be in the gap between the arcuate members 53 and '55 so as to permit the free rotation of said pinion and the mechanism actuated thereby. Immediately that the rack 48, however, passes out of mesh with the pinion 47, the long teeth 51 of said pinion will engage the arcuate stop member 53 and thus arrest further movement of the impression cylinder 23 and hold this cylinder stationary until the rack 49 meshes with the pinion 47 in'th-e'same-manner as that above describe-d.

The small diameter of the ring 56 affords the proper clearance between succeeding segmental racks upon said ring for the short teeth 52 on the pinion 47. This mode of operation permits any desired spacing of the characters upon each ticket as determined by the length of the respective racks 48, 49 and 50.

'In the form of the invention shown, the rack is twice the length of the racks 48 and 49, since this rack is relied upon for spacing the strip between the last number impressed upon one ticket and the first number impressed upon the following ticket, irrespective of the diameter of the rotary member 19 or of the distance between the printing elements upon this member. Since the length of the racks 48, 49 and 50 is determined by, and coincident with, the length of the tickets, it is apparent that so far as the printing operation is concerned, cach '53, 54 and prevent any overrunning of the impression cylinder, since these" members, with the long teeth 51 of the pinion 41, act as 'aGeneva stopfor causing the inter mittent operation of the impression cylinder 23.

\Vith each rotation of the member 19, the eccentric 44 will impart one direct and return reciprocation through the strap 43 to the link 42. This link, through the socket 41, will impart a direct and return reciprocatory movement to the swing frame 38 so as to secure the desired operative effect with relation to the digit wheels 39 upon the printing element 20. This effect may either be the progressive actuation of these wheels with each actuation of the swing frame 38, or intermittent actuation of said wheels by said swing frame, or if desired the swing frame may be made totally inoperative with relation to said digit wheels. This result is secured by the repeat mechanism tound in ordinary numbering heads, and it is therefore not fully shown nor described in the present application.

The hand operation of the member 19 permits the rapid printing of these tickets in a quantity as desired. It in a certain lot of merchandise one hundred suits are to be made and seven tickets are to be applied to the cloth for each suit. the machine may be so set as to indicate the entire lot, the tickets being printed in groups of seven before any change of the wheels 39 is made by the swing frame 38. After the seventh full cycle of operations, however, there will be a change in said digit wheels, and a further group of seven similar tickets will be printed. If it is desired to run only two or three tickets in a group, the printing element 20 may be set so that the tickets will be printed in groups of two or three.

If the pile of cloth has thirty layers, the difierent layers being of goods of dillerent styles, the machine is stopped after the desired number of tickets for one style have been printed, and the manually operative wheels upon the printing element 20 are set to change the indicated shade or model number. Since all of the garments which are made from a single pile of cloth will ordinarily be of the same size, no resetting of the wheels of the element 21 or of the element 22 will be required, since the goods of one pile will ordinarily be in the same lot. If different sizes of garments, however, be cut from one pile, it will be necessary for the user of the machine to change the size nu1nher to conform to the size of the different garments.

The printed tickets are delivered at the cutting table, and after the garments are cut, they are distributed with relation to the proper garments, and attached to some part of the cloth forming each garment, where they remain during all of the time when tailoring work is being done upon the garment and until they are delivered to the stock room in completed form. With the tickets attached, it is immaterial Where tailoring is done upon the garments, since when they are returned to the stock room, the tickets will indicate the garments entering into each suit, so that these garments may be quickly collated.

It is apparent that with the arrangement and construction of printing elements herein shown and described, the machine may be used to print tickets to conform to any manufacturing system which may be adopted, and that tickets may be printed only as required, thus permitting the use of blank strips in making all tickets and avoiding these complications which frequently arise when previously printed tickets are used.

It is not my intention to limit the invention to the precise details of construction shown in the drawings, it being apparent that such may be varied without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

The co-operating mechanisms carried by the member 19 and the impression cylinder 23, to wit: the segmental racks 48, 49 and 50 and arcuate members 53, 54 and 55 and the rack 45 and the intermediate mechanism consisting of the pinions 46 and 47, are essential to the invention either in the form shown or in an equivalent form, since this mechanism is relied upon to secure the desired close spacing of the reproduced characters upon the ticket in the desired close juxtaposition. Vithout such a mechanism it would be impossible to utilize printing elements of the character of those herein described, since impressions less than one and one-halt inches apart cannot be made with such printing units.

Having described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to have protected by Letters Patent, is

l. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cy 'linder, means whereby said printing element carrying ITlQl'l'lbGl may be con tinuously rotated, intermittently operative gearing between said last named member and the other member of the printing couple, whereby the impressions by the elements upon said other member may be brought closely together, and means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members.

2. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements. each of said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members, and cooperating mechanisms carried by the members of said printing couple respectively and intermediate said members, whereby said impression cylinder will be positively rotated each printing element comes into the printing relation thereto and is held against rotation after said element has left the printing osition and the strip has been fed to secure the proper spacing for the succeeding impression.

A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced. printing elements, each oi said elements including therein a sequence of inclependently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some or" the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be continuously rotated, intermittently operative gearing between said last named member and the other member of the printing couple, whereby the impressions by the elements upon said other member may be brought closely together, an inking roller consisting of absorbent material adapted to be saturated with ink, positioned in the path of movement of said printing elements, and means t'or directing a strip into the printing rela tion between said members.

l. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with aplurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence olfindependently adjust-able character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressn; actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, a pirotally mounted frame haviug bearings whereby an inking roller may he removably mounted therein, the pivotal support for said frame extending parallel with the axis of the member carrying the printing element-s, means whereby said "Frame may be set in any adiusted position, an inking roller consisting of absorbent mat rial adapted to be saturated with ink,

,scaoea mounted in said bearings and positioned in the path ot movement of the printing elements, and means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members.

5. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence or independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated and including therein an actuating mechanism cons sisting of an eccentric fixed in relation to the axis of the member carrying the printing elements, a strap encircling said eccentric, a link connected with said strap, and a swing frame carried by the printing element, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder,

means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, an inking roller arranged in the path of movement of said printing elements, and means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members.

6. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therem a sequence of in dependently adjustable character wheels,

means whereby some of the character wheels cally and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members, and means carried by said impression cylinder whereby movement of the strip with relation to said cylinder is preventedv T. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustablc character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels vupon one of said elements may be automatiupon one of said elements may be automath cally and progressively actuated, and the other membe of which consists of a rotata le lllllal'QFSlOll cyl nder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, meai. directing a strip into the printing relation between said members, and a sequence of rectilineally opposite inwardly presented teeth adjacent the opposite edges of impression cylinder adapted to engage notches in the edge of the strip and prevent movement of the strip relative said cylinder. i

A ticket; printing machine en'ibodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which provided with a plurality oi spaced printing elements, each of said ele ments including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may he automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, an oscillatory guide member ad jacent said impression cylinder and having a forwardly projecting end adapted to engage said cylinder, whereby a strip is directed into the printing relation between said members, and a spring acting upon said guide to normally force its projecting end toward said impression cylinder.

9. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, an oscillatory guide member adjacent said impression cylinder and having a forwardly projecting end adapted to engage said cylinder, whereby a strip is directed into the printing relation between said members, a spring acting upon said guide to normally 'torce its projecting end toward said impression cylinder, a stripper upon the side of said impression cylinder opposite said guide, and a guide roller above said stripper.

10. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the me1nbers of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotata ble impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members, a gear carried by said impression cylinder, segmental racks adjacent said printing elements respectively carried by and rotatable with the member carrying said elements, and two enmeshed intermediate pinions, one of which is adapted to be intermittently engaged by said racks, and the other of which is enmeshed with the gear upon said impression cylinder, whereby said impression cylinder will be rotated when each of said elements is in printing relation thereto.

11. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each oi said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of arotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members, a gear carried by said impression cylinder, segmental racks adjacent said printing elements respectively carried by and rotatable with the member carrying said elements, two enmeshed intermediate pinions, one of which is adapted to be intermittently engaged by said racks, and the other of which is enmeshed with the gear upon said impression cylinder, whereby said impression cylinder will be rotated when each of said elements is in printing relation thereto, and means whereby rotation of said impression cylinder is prevented except when said racks are engaged with said pinion.

12. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members, a gear carried by said impression cylinder, segmental racks adjacent said printing elements respectively carried by and rotatable with the member carrying said elements, two enmeshed intermediate pinions, one of which is adapted to be intermittently engaged by said racks, and the other of which is enmeshed with the gear upon said impression cylinder, whereby said impression cylinder will be rotated when each of said elements is in printing relation thereto, means whereby rotation of said impression cylinder is prevented except when said racks are ongaged with said pinions, and means carried by said impression cylinder whereby movement of the strip in relation thereto is prevented.

13. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members, a gear carried by said impression cylinder, a pinion enmeshed with said gear, a second pinion enmeshed with said last named pinion and having some short and some long teeth, segmental racks adjacent said printing elements respectively carried by and rotatable with the member carrying said elements and so positioned as to mesh with both the long and the short teeth upon said last named pinion, whereby said impression cylinder will receive intermittent feeding movement as each of said printing elements comes into the printing relation thereto, and segmental arcuate members intermediate said racks respectively so positioned as to engage the long teeth of said pinion only, whereby rotation of said impression cylinder is prevented except when said racks are engaged with said pinion.

14. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a printing couple, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, means whereby said printing element carrying member may be rotated, means for directing a strip into the printing relation between said members, a gear carried by said impression cylinder, a pinion enmeshed with said gear, a second pinion enmeshed with said last named pinion and having a plurality of groups composed of some short and some long teeth, the number of long teeth in some of these groups being greater than'in the others, segmental racks adjacent said printing elements respectively carried by and rotatable with the member carrying said elements and so positioned as to mesh with both the long and the short teeth of the groups upon said last named pinion, some of said racks having a greater number of teeth than the others, whereby said impression cylinder will receive intermittent feeding movement as each of said printing elements comes into the prin i g Islet- 911 t ese a d e mental arcuate members intermediate said racks respectively so positioned as to engage the long teeth of said pinion only, whereby rotation of said impression cylinder is prevented except when said racks are engaged with said pinion.

15. A ticket printing machine embodying therein a frame having an extension, a spindle carried by said extension and adapted to receive a strip of blank tickets, a printing couple mounted in said frame, one of the members of which is provided with a plurality of spaced printing elements, each of said elements including therein a sequence of independently adjustable character wheels, means whereby some of the character wheels upon one of said elements may be automatically and progressively actuated, and including therein an actuating mechanism consisting of an eccentric fixed with relation to the axis of the member carrying the printing elements, a strap encircling said eccentric, a link connected with said strap, and a swing frame carried by said printing element, and the other member of which consists of a rotatable impression cylinder, a pivotally mounted frame having bearings whereby an inking roller may be removably mounted therein, the pivotal support for said frame extending parallel with the axis of the member carrying the printing elements, means whereby said frame may be set in any adjusted position, an inking roller consisting of absorbent material adapted to be saturated with ink, mounted in said bearings and positioned in the path of movement of the printing elements, an oscillatory guide member adjacent said impression cylinder and having a forwardly projecting en'd adapted to engage said cylinder whereby a strip is directed into the printing relation between said members, a spring acting upon said guide to normally force its projecting end toward said impression cylinder, a stripper upon the side of said impression cylinder opposite said guide, a guide roller above said stripper, a sequence of rectilineally opposite inwardly presented teeth adjacent the op posite edges of said impression cylinder adapted to engage notches in the edges of the strip and prevent movement of the strip relative to said cylinder, a gear carried by said impression cylinder, a pinion enmeshed with said gear, a second pinion enmeshed with said last named pinion and having a plurality of groups composed of some short and some long teeth, the number of long teeth in some of these groups being greater than in the others, segmental racks adjacent said printing elements respectively carried by and rotatable with the member carrying said elements and so positioned as to mesh with both {the long and the short teeth of the gre ns grensiidla named P i ILO some of said racks having a greater number of teeth than the others, whereby said im pression cylinder will receive intermittent feeding movement as each of said printing elements comes into the printing relation thereto, and segmental arenate members intermediate said racks respectively s0 positioned as to engage the long teeth of said pinion only, whereby rotation of said impression cylinder is prevented except when 10 said racks are engaged with said pinion.

In witness whereof I have hereunto afi'ixed my signature, this 26th day of October, 1923.

WILLIAM H. HEYNE, JR. 

